Question

ok, I’m sure i’m not the only one that has wondered this =)

In a nutshell, is it possible using VisualStudio to convert:

string a1, string a2, string a3, string a4, string a5, string  a6

into a string sorta like:

"'value1', 'value2', 'value3', 'value4', 'value5', value6'"

(don’t worry about the exact formatting, i can handle that myself)?

Background:
I often have functions that calls stored procedures that accept a lot of params, and sometimes (debugging) i need to build the “exec dbo.storedprocname param1, param2….” string and run it directly against the server. Currently i have to manually build the string and i’m hoping there’s an easy way to print it out in the immediate window in VisualStudio

EDIT (By popular demand):
I’m using Linq2SQL (yes, i knwo it’s obsolete) and have 100+ SP’s in it. When I need to debug a function, i put a break inside one of these functions to see what it’s about to pass to the database. So this would be RUNTIME. When it hits the breakpoint:

public static void MethodCreatedByLINQ2Sql(string param1, string param2, string param3, ...)
{
    context.mystoredprocedure(param1, param2, param3...); //<---breakpoint
}

I want to somehow (without having to specify each param), print out a delimited string that i can cut & paste into SSMS2008 (trying to save time) to build a string like this

exec dbo.mystoredprocedure [['value1', 'value2', 'value3'......]] <--- pasted value from VisualStudio

No, i’m not trying to do SQLInjections or anything like that. I’m just trying to save time – some of these SP’s have 20+ params.

Answer 1

Is this what you’re after?

String paramStr = String.Format("'{0}', '{1}', '{2}', '{3}', '{4}'", a1, a2, a3,a4,a5);

I should point out that sending strings like this to the DB can result in SQL Injection

Option 2:

To print the to the intermediate window you can use this trick:

1. Create a breakpoint
2. Right-Click the red dot -> “When Hit”.
3. In the new screen select the “Print a message” checkbox
4. In the textbox type the String.Format from above but with a curly brace on each side:

{ String.Format(.....) }

More about the params you can print in that message: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/232dxah7.aspx